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Cheese Stuffed Hanpen
Salty Lotus Root Kinpira
Glazed Carrots
Grilled Green Pepper
Steamed Broccoli
Brown and White Rice with Umeboshi
Hanpen, if I haven’t mentioned before, are one of many fish cake products from Japan. They are very fluffy and light with a salty and savory flavor. The flavor of the fish is actually quite mild. I highly recommend sauteeing them in a bit of butter and trying them that way. Yum! For this lunch, I stuffed them with mozzarella cheese then breaded and fried a piece of hanpen. Not very nutritious, but tasty. The flavor of the chese contrasted nicely with the flavor of the hanpen. As you can see, the cheese started to melt so they didn’t turn out very neat looking.
Nearly everything else was made the night before, as I figured that making the hanpen would take up most of my morning sliver of bento making time. The only exception to this is the green pepper, which I sliced up and set to cook while I ate breakfast.
(A second lunch is under the cut.)
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